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Journal of Social and Political Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by PsychOpen.
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ISSN 2195-3325Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: PsychOpen
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 395 / 1530 | 74th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 147 / 315 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 133 / 258 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology is Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 395 of 1530), Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 147 of 315) and Q3 in Applied Psychology (rank 133 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.740, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology is published by PsychOpen. Its ISSN is 2195-3325.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #467 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Social and Political Psychology published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 49. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.8%), United Kingdom (16.1%) and Germany (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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